Police: DUI suspected in Route 33 crash in Ross

Police said they suspect DUI in a two-car crash in Ross Township Wednesday in which a Saylorsburg man was injured. It was the fourth crash of the day on the roadway.

According to state police at Swiftwater, Robert Templeton, 57, of Saylorsburg, had overturned his car on Route 33 in Ross Township and it landed on its roof in the middle of the road just before 6 p.m..

Kim Wismer, 53, of Saylorsburg was driving north in the right hand lane on Route 33 in Ross Township when Wismer saw the overturned car.

Wismer was unable to avoid Templeton's car and crashed into it. After impact Wismer's car left the roadway to the right and hit a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation sign, coming to rest off the roadway facing northeast.

Templeton's car came to rest in the right lane, on its roof, facing east.

Templeton had to be extracted from his vehicle and was transported to Pocono Medical Center for minor injuries, police said. Wismer was checked and released by EMS personnel at the scene.

Police said DUI charges against Templeton will be filed in district court.

The road was closed for about two hours.

Earlier in the day, at 12:11 a.m., Rakeshkumar H. Dholakia, 42, of Bartlett, Ill., was driving an Axar Enterprise tractor-trailer south on Route 33, toward the four-lane Route 209 split, when he went off the right side of the road and hit an embankment, police said.

The tractor-trailer rolled over, spilling what witnesses said appeared to be bottled soft drinks and blocking both southbound lanes.

The driver of another truck, which had been traveling behind the tractor-trailer, slammed on the brakes and just grazed it, witnesses said.

While police were dealing with this first crash, a second crash occurred at 12:50 a.m. in the resulting traffic backlog.

A 1984 Chevy C1 was backing up, "making a U-type turn," police said. A 2007 Toyota Corolla behind the Chevy did not see it backing up and hit it in the rear passenger side. Police did not identify anyone involved in this second crash.

Route 33 south was closed and reopened by 9:30 a.m. No injuries were reported in either crash.

A third crash, this one involving two vehicles, was reported on Route 33 South at mile-marker 21.5 in Hamilton Township, according to the county Control Center. The crash occurred just before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.